NFL 2010 draft order

Seattle will draft No. 6 and No. 14 overall (Denver’s first-round pick). Seattle picked up the No. 14 pick from the Broncos in a draft day trade last year, giving up their second-round pick in 2009 so Denver could draft Wake Forest cornerback Alphonso Smith.

Here are the rules the league uses to put the first round together.

The winner of the Super Bowl will select last and the other Super Bowl participant next-to-last, regardless of their regular-season record. B. The Championship Game participants not advancing to the Super Bowl will select 29th and 30th, according to the reverse order of their regular-season record. C. The Divisional Playoff participants not advancing to the Championship Games will select 25th through 28th, according to the reverse order of their regular-season record. D. The Wild Card participants not advancing to the Divisional Playoffs will select 21st through 24th, according to the reverse order of their regular-season record. E. Non-playoff clubs will select first through 20th, according to the reverse order of their regular-season record. If ties exist in any grouping except (A) above, they will be broken by strength of schedule (i.e., figuring the aggregate won-lost-tied percentage of each involved club’s regular season opponents and awarding preferential selection order to the club which faced the schedule of teams with the lowest aggregate won-lost-tied percentage). If ties still exist after applying the strength of schedule tiebreaker, the divisional or conference tiebreakers are applied, if applicable. If the divisional or conference tiebreakers are not applicable, ties will be broken by a coin flip.

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